Our own actual genius Beth McDonald (Bethtuba) is releasing two albums this week (along with some other rad shit that'll be at the show).

Her release show is at Elastic on Thursday, August 17. $15 and it starts at 8:30. She'll be joined by Franki Hand and myself, as well as Eliya Gwetta and Erez ...

DISREGARD THIS ONE!!

Genuinely difficult to pick! Went with my gut as well as what I experienced live with each band.

I found Earth sincerely moving on a few levels. Sunn-O)))) were unreal and maybe too much for me at that time? Think it was 2003 when I saw them, so full tilt loud as fuck, salt-the-earth.

Earth wasn ...

I think, and I could be wrong, but I can credit the old board for introducing me to FM Jeremy Brashaw, guitar dude in NSM. I'm glad it happened however it did.

Here is a new album we made in Denver in 2021 that's finally seeing the light of day. Major thanks to Garrote Records for trusting us and ...

Asteroid City sucked. Astoundingly bad film from the jump.

Dude's one heart-string trick (dead wife/mom, prodigy kids) is driven into the ground, again. The narrative framing device (oh look, a story about a story) was really half-baked.

Can't recall a time where a movie made me that angry to be ...

Rough one for me! Those Wand albums are GREAT (the last two full lengths in particular), but man, weird mixing on this album. Guitars are loud as FUCK.

I need to listen to this a few more times before voting.

Might be the worst-named album of all time? Quite a feat.

This one is hitting all the marks for me.

MONO DRUMS, COWARDS.

My wife and I had Avec a week or so ago and it was GREAT. Pricey but fully worth it.

We got the skirt steak and some roasted carrots. Excellent.

Dunkirk was visually stunning in the theater (the sound design set off my tinnitus in a major way).

Prestige was fantastic. I'm stoked as fuck to see Oppenheimer. I read American Prometheus last year and I cannot imagine what he'll include and what he'll edit out. Dude had a fucking wild life ...